Scientists Found 6,000-Year-Old Human Remains. No Other People Share Their DNA.

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...
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Japan’s oldest human fossils may not be human at all, new study finds

New imaging has upended a decades-old assumption about Japan’s earliest “humans.” The finding doesn’t erase the past—it ...
CNN

An unusual quartz-tipped tool killed a man 12,000 years ago. Scientists are puzzling over who wielded it

A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the region. It ...
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Oldest Sequenced Genome From 45,000-Year-Old DNA

In a spectacular bit of science, a group of scientists has sequenced the DNA from the femur of a man who died 45,000 years ago. The femur they studied is over 20 times older than this 2000 year old ...
The Atlantic

We Still Have No Idea Where Humans Came From (Except That The Daily Mail Is Wrong)

Scientists were able to isolate the oldest human DNA yet, they announced today, but the 400,000-year-old genome sequence actually prompted more questions than it answered. Spain's a long way from ...